The locations with the highest concentration of Business degree recipients are New York, NY, Tempe, AZ, and Chicago, IL. The locations with a relatively high number of Business degree recipients are . The most common degree awarded to students studying Business is a bachelors degree.

Tuition costs for Business majors are, on average, $6,670 for in-state public colleges, and $29,736 for out of state private colleges.

The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Business programs are Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above institutions (1,090 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 4-year or above (355,465 completions).

This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Business majors.

Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Business majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.

The number of Business graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.01%, from 10.9M in 2017 to 11.2M in 2018.

The largest single share of Business graduates go on to work as Accountants & auditors (10.3%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Business by share of the total number of graduates.

This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Business majors.

Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Business majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.

Demographic information on those who earn a degree in Business in the US. The average age of a person in the workforce with a degree in Business is 43.7, and the most common degree type these workers hold is a Bachelors Degree. Female employees are more likely to hold Business degrees, and White students earn the majority (420,302) of the degrees.

This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Business. The most common ages of employees with this major are 48 and 36 years old, which represent 2.69% and 2.67% of the population, respectively.

This chart illustrates the differences by gender for each race & ethnicity of Bachelors Degree recipients in Business. White Male students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and gender.

There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Mongolia that hold Business degrees (3.79 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is India (170,115 degree recipients).

Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Business field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Business majors need many skills, but most especially Speaking. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Business majors need more than the average amount of Programming, Mathematics, and Management of Financial Resources.

These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Business majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Programming is very distinctive for majors, but the Speaking, Reading Comprehension, and Writing are the three most important skills for people in the field.